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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1932
Page
2
A letter from Madeira Ohio argues widening postal sales beyond stamps to include printing and a broad range of goods. The writer questions why Uncle Sam cannot extend duties by adding items such as breakfast foods, evaporated milk, shoes, drugs, dry goods, and clothing to post office offerings.
The July issue article by Senator Geo W Patterson challenges McFarland to a debate. McFarland accepts, defending his campaign plan and proposing a writing debate. He criticizes Patterson for tax reform claims, salary grab ties, and legislative record, urging voters to weigh his actions in Des Moines.
In Chicago the speaker accuses Patterson of pushing a 976000 tax increase to profit personally, branding it a betrayal of pledges and an attempt to hinge power to draw an extra 600 dollars. The letter argues the burden falls on homeowners and criticizes lawmakers for insufficient statutes.
A handwritten missive from Dr. Thomas, once of Ntonke, laments missing Indian Day events this year. He notes a helper’s possible return from Walker to enable his own travel to the homecoming. He recalls Dr. Kenefick’s death and expresses affection for old friends while hoping to reunite with Mia and others.
The notice warns anglers to carry a fishing license and limit gear. It prohibits more than two poles, one at each hook, and restricts trot or throw lines to fifteen hooks per line in rivers. Lines may not be placed within 300 feet of any dam or fishway, and anglers must attend their lines at all times.
James Stacy, manager of a Standard Oil station near St Jos, was duped by two visitors. One sold a 35 caiis punch board and immediately won gasoline worth money, while a second man kept winning as Stacy paid cash. A local man later confirmed every win was false, suggesting collaboration to cheat honest customers.
The Northern Pike, also called the Great Northern Pike or Jack Fish, spans North America and beyond. It favors clear cool lakes and streams, spawns in spring near marshy areas, and females carry 75 to 200 thousand eggs. It feeds on fish, frogs, crayfish, insects, reptiles, and even young ducks, offering good eating and sport. the heaviest hook and line record weighs 45.75 pounds.
Dean Glanville Mason City depth game warden spotted an enormous frog near Twin Lakes in Hancock County at dusk. The creature measured about 20 inches and weighed roughly two pounds with others found nearby. The incident raises questions about how such frogs arrived in the area.
The passage urges better growth of water vegetation and minimized crab loss, avoid grazing along shore to protect nests, place fish along water edges to attract birds, and preserve brush piles to shelter quail rabbits and songbirds. It stresses keeping brush heaps for game birds and recommends planting fruiting trees like cherry bushes to attract and sustain game birds, citing substantial agricultural savings from birds controlling pests.
The article notes birds defend agriculture by attacking grasshoppers and other insects. It cites Utah’s monument to gulls that saved crops from crickets in 1907 8 and Nevada field mice threats, stressing birds like the sparrow hawk red shouldered hawk red winged blackbird blue jay and many others as natural pest control and urging protection for economic reasons.
A cock pheasant at EH Fox farm fed regularly prompting a search that found a pheasant nest in a low tree rather than ground. The mother hen hatched and led the brood away successfully, according to the Riceville Recorder.
The Totonka Public Library opens Saturdays 2 to 6 pm. On Aug 13 forty books were loaned, including twenty four fiction, one non fiction, and fifteen juvenile fiction. The librarian asks mothers to note the book Tideway Sardine by Bram as an excellent child read with engaging pictures.
Local items recount visits and family gatherings among Reed Stotts Blakleys and Bacon families near Britt Burt and Algona, with gatherings at Hart Stott and Pauline Blakley and a Week with Gladys Thompson. A August 12 1931 note from Editor Kossuth County Advanced defends article exposure and explains misreadings and publication timing involving the Algona Advance and Upper Des Moines Republican.
School notes correct an error in last week’s list of texts. The second Ninth grade entry should read Every day Problems in Science by Pieper and Beauchamp. High school students are asked to attend the August 24 assembly to register for classes. assembly hours are nine to twelve and one to six. This is the PTA Book Exchange date, noted by Supt. C. A. Hoon.
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